DORCUS

Operated by SM ENERGY COMPANY (P-5 788997) in the SPRABERRY (TREND AREA) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 15489District 7CField 85279200OilCasinghead gasSave
Value, all time
$317.9 M
Nov 2003 – May 2026
Value, last 12 filed months
$1.5 M
at the published price for each month
Months reported
271
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition3,878,276 bbl$257,150,519
Casinghead gasProduction15,210,645 Mcf$60,711,031
Total$317,861,550

Wells on this lease (51)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 31.6237, -102.2396. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 3.6 miles.

31.62515, -102.23916 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
25.5%
13 of 51 wells
With a plug date
25.5%
13 of 51 wells
Median depth
10,425 ft
51 wells filed one
Completion to plug
3.7 years
median over 13 wells

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1325.5%
A plug date is filed
1325.5%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
1325.5%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
3874.5%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

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12k
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Total depth in feet, 51 of 51 wells. Median 10,425 ft, with the middle half between 10,288 and 10,550 ft; the shallowest is 9,593 ft and the deepest 11,239 ft. The median is published rather than the mean, because a single mis-keyed depth moves a mean and cannot move a median.

When they were last completed

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10s
20s

Last completion by decade, 51 of 51 wells, Nov 2005 – May 2025. This is the LAST completion filed on each wellbore, not the first — a well recompleted in 2019 counts once, in the 2010s.

Completions filed
Nov 2005 – May 2025
51 of 51 wells
Plug dates filed
Jun 2008 – May 2026
13 of 51 wells; 38 filed none

Last completion to plug: a median of 3.7 years across the 13 wells that filed both dates, with the middle half between 2.8 years and 5.3 years. The gap is the distance between two filed dates. It is not a statement of how long the well produced.

51 wells

42-46136626421010,415 ftMay 2025
42-46135087420310,600 ftFeb 2024
42-46135934300410,367 ftFeb 2024
42-46135029420210,615 ftFeb 2024
42-46135572421510,517 ftFeb 2024
42-46134915300510,250 ftJan 2024
42-46136119421210,595 ftJul 2023May 2026Yes
42-46135571421610,700 ftJun 2023
42-46135388360310,527 ftFeb 2023
42-46136105361510,560 ftFeb 2023
42-46134488290110,425 ftMay 2022Feb 2024Yes
42-46134849290710,212 ftSep 2021
42-46134600420110,450 ftSep 2021Aug 2025Yes
42-46135390360610,506 ftJan 2021
42-46136110361610,580 ftDec 2020
42-46135389360410,522 ftDec 2020
42-46135391360710,500 ftAug 2020
42-46134660360110,400 ftMay 2020
42-46136082421110,525 ftApr 2020Aug 2025Yes
42-46134872420510,350 ftAug 2018
42-46136454361410,550 ftMar 2017Sep 2022Yes
42-46134382320110,150 ftAug 2016Apr 2026Yes
42-461403033001WB9,668 ftJul 2016
42-461403043002WB9,693 ftJul 2016
42-461403053003WB9,593 ftJul 2016
42-46135355190710,300 ftMay 2016
42-46135992360510,550 ftOct 2015Mar 2019Yes
42-46136120421310,505 ftSep 2015Apr 2019Yes
42-46135346420410,610 ftJul 2015Mar 2019Yes
42-46136083421410,541 ftNov 2014Mar 2019Yes
42-461395614231H9,638 ftOct 2014
42-461392223031H9,657 ftJul 2014
42-461392134236H9,727 ftApr 2014
42-461392103036H9,660 ftMar 2014
42-46134687300710,400 ftMar 2014Jun 2015Yes
42-46136365291211,033 ftAug 2013
42-461385913035H9,689 ftJun 2013
42-46136946291111,239 ftNov 2010
42-46135929300210,363 ftJan 2009
42-46135930320510,550 ftDec 2008
42-46135935300310,395 ftOct 2008
42-46135961360210,550 ftOct 2008
42-46135411290410,348 ftSep 2008
42-46135413290310,320 ftJun 2008
42-46135365190610,275 ftSep 2007Jun 2008Yes
42-46135210420910,540 ftJun 2007
42-46135174420810,625 ftFeb 2007
42-46134995420710,573 ftMay 2006
42-46134921360810,400 ftJan 2006
42-46134947190810,250 ftJan 2006
42-46134882300610,300 ftNov 2005Jul 2015Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (271)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

271 months

May 20261,74011,069106.413.05$218,868
Apr 20261,53811,92998.932.87$186,387
Mar 20261,25114,27789.753.15$157,242
Feb 20261,14015,85563.503.75$131,851
Jan 202693913,91059.138.00$166,774
Dec 20251,0858,99156.664.41$101,157
Nov 20258287,08258.593.93$76,320
Oct 202592011,13559.383.30$91,429
Sep 202599110,78362.743.08$95,354
Aug 202591611,61763.933.01$93,582
Jul 20251,43310,80566.743.32$131,459
Jun 20256198,12366.483.13$66,566
May 20251,1147,76060.553.23$92,536
Apr 20251,1266,70062.363.54$93,956
Mar 20251,58316,73367.704.27$178,591
Feb 20251,66716,79970.884.34$191,079
Jan 20251,95215,13674.324.28$209,835
Dec 20242,68719,16168.993.12$245,185
Nov 20243,33027,61769.052.20$290,651
Oct 20242,95026,45971.372.28$270,905
Sep 20242,74622,32569.612.36$243,933
Aug 20242,38917,84475.632.06$217,503
Jul 20242,28411,34679.932.15$206,915
Jun 20241,7078,49878.082.63$155,666
May 20241,3424,52778.812.20$115,715
Apr 20241,33912,86584.451.66$134,424
Mar 20243,13237,51480.301.55$309,464
Feb 20243,19037,10476.091.78$308,907
Jan 20242,57640,48773.023.30$321,612
Dec 20232,30232,18371.262.61$248,061
Nov 20232,33619,00177.892.81$235,297
Oct 20231,89414,85785.443.09$207,691
Sep 20231,78518,53289.042.74$209,622
Aug 20234,04870,01780.522.67$513,092
Jul 20234,39883,08474.852.64$548,682
Jun 20234,28368,87768.962.26$450,913
May 20235,48279,04070.622.23$563,193
Apr 20235,34277,36378.122.24$590,437
Mar 20236,34792,86572.852.39$684,620
Feb 20235,77181,60275.112.47$634,664
Jan 20236,72294,04676.533.39$833,036
Dec 20226,68091,36476.415.73$1,033,850
Nov 20226,69994,03285.005.65$1,100,338
Oct 20227,953119,67287.185.86$1,395,070
Sep 20227,46291,04884.888.16$1,376,661
Aug 20227,20282,86394.529.13$1,437,037
Jul 20227,16679,698101.587.54$1,329,011
Jun 20227,50081,337115.097.98$1,512,017
May 20227,70485,881109.378.43$1,566,824
Apr 20228,70383,532104.226.84$1,478,185
Mar 20227,65768,095108.885.08$1,179,372
Feb 20226,49861,44191.054.86$890,175
Jan 20227,02766,06481.844.54$874,867
Dec 20216,89865,80671.323.90$748,551
Nov 20217,10677,70477.435.24$957,142
Oct 20217,66080,05179.795.71$1,068,592
Sep 20217,03080,57969.865.35$922,288
Aug 20218,78094,28566.024.22$977,594
Jul 20217,61767,99670.783.98$809,897
Jun 20216,90556,05569.493.38$669,329
May 20217,33067,86463.483.02$670,100
Apr 20216,77872,02060.362.76$607,781
Mar 20219,02376,54061.302.72$761,064
Feb 20216,76265,65157.805.55$755,072
Jan 20217,23881,63250.412.81$594,276
Dec 20208,34586,00344.642.68$602,618
Nov 20209,78787,25838.772.71$615,612
Oct 202010,47993,96336.972.48$620,289
Sep 20209,30474,37337.091.99$493,165
Aug 20209,37955,03939.982.39$506,246
Jul 202011,76854,64738.371.83$551,275
Jun 202011,63058,93534.901.69$505,505
May 202011,06969,90716.921.81$314,151
Apr 202012,01674,20414.751.80$311,128
Mar 202012,33887,02630.341.86$535,875
Feb 202010,70463,94149.881.98$660,562
Jan 202012,87786,57757.252.09$918,565
Dec 201914,26583,67859.012.30$1,034,602
Nov 201914,79786,49855.302.75$1,056,204
Oct 201914,89086,18953.472.42$1,004,620
Sep 201914,19197,58155.052.66$1,040,515
Aug 201915,29787,78353.112.30$1,014,707
Jul 201916,15496,40456.272.46$1,146,145
Jun 201913,73484,61452.782.49$935,671
May 201915,88388,13258.482.74$1,170,348
Apr 201914,84192,02062.632.75$1,182,611
Mar 201915,47896,00556.803.06$1,173,127
Feb 201914,98884,07950.852.79$996,907
Jan 201916,02083,89046.033.23$1,008,213
Dec 201815,67079,10046.594.19$1,061,134
Nov 201813,68780,85052.934.24$1,067,034
Oct 201813,76594,56561.443.40$1,167,061
Sep 201814,528105,06259.543.11$1,191,530
Aug 201816,322101,84659.403.07$1,281,844
Jul 201816,800105,76465.142.93$1,404,439
Jun 201813,64795,96660.183.08$1,116,556
May 201813,39396,51765.382.90$1,155,611
Apr 201815,42598,63963.842.90$1,270,864
Mar 201818,55496,47361.222.79$1,404,731
Feb 201817,17670,57061.782.77$1,256,338
Jan 201821,40278,22062.874.01$1,659,153
Dec 201722,10084,25357.272.92$1,511,814
Nov 201720,42885,48455.423.12$1,398,690
Oct 201719,75983,27649.292.98$1,222,390
Sep 201719,12279,67147.523.09$1,154,644
Aug 201720,98372,11145.373.00$1,168,649
Jul 201717,97074,45843.873.09$1,018,217
Jun 201720,31491,63242.493.09$1,146,036
May 201724,539104,67745.373.26$1,454,937
Apr 201726,269116,72547.933.21$1,633,947
Mar 201730,961144,87946.772.98$1,880,319
Feb 201733,530139,98250.452.95$2,104,899
Jan 201735,55995,10249.413.42$2,082,105
Dec 201628,08164,41348.763.72$1,609,028
Nov 201639,231104,06642.492.64$1,942,112
Oct 201651,831170,05646.193.09$2,919,591
Sep 201666,288171,85741.553.10$3,287,131
Aug 201659,83789,03341.442.92$2,740,008
Jul 201673,48784,47941.622.92$3,305,574
Jun 201610,51724,82345.352.69$543,616
May 201612,43350,29842.521.99$628,796
Apr 201614,40255,92336.561.99$637,882
Mar 201617,25463,48333.011.79$683,444
Feb 201615,38655,75926.472.06$522,333
Jan 201618,75160,05727.352.36$654,836
Dec 201517,82756,29932.362.00$689,559
Nov 201515,55252,99238.792.17$718,113
Oct 201519,64562,75043.552.43$1,007,808
Sep 201518,81756,39242.992.76$964,496
Aug 201518,89059,39140.162.87$929,222
Jul 201518,96362,20648.152.95$1,096,270
Jun 201516,15055,02056.152.88$1,065,437
May 201522,50473,01455.212.96$1,458,235
Apr 201520,96369,98849.822.71$1,233,804
Mar 201527,16390,10142.892.93$1,429,441
Feb 201523,39290,74044.662.98$1,314,746
Jan 201537,990122,27643.433.10$2,029,038
Dec 201447,249144,06854.693.59$3,101,448
Nov 201449,545106,80170.464.25$3,945,041
Oct 201438,54795,37678.303.90$3,390,288
Sep 201441,58499,85686.164.05$3,986,839
Aug 201438,972103,30089.394.04$3,900,535
Jul 201427,07494,79096.564.18$3,010,450
Jun 201434,28196,57998.164.74$3,822,506
May 201464,293147,33394.734.73$6,786,854
Apr 201443,99170,15795.944.81$4,557,890
Mar 201410,36634,99795.895.06$1,170,969
Feb 20149,13434,20197.406.19$1,101,424
Jan 201413,31956,94490.404.86$1,480,826
Dec 201314,28060,68991.824.35$1,575,459
Nov 201315,56164,74488.853.74$1,624,626
Oct 201319,54172,64697.423.78$2,178,240
Sep 201321,80977,316104.113.72$2,557,976
Aug 201333,66789,106104.253.52$3,823,670
Jul 201330,42163,869102.523.72$3,356,209
Jun 20137,69639,84194.403.93$883,213
May 20137,31438,02494.834.15$851,351
Apr 20136,72538,89193.964.28$798,435
Mar 20137,26241,24393.623.91$841,247
Feb 20137,18340,77991.233.42$794,766
Jan 20138,28743,56391.603.42$908,071
Dec 20128,49145,46086.773.42$892,245
Nov 20128,90445,34486.953.62$938,573
Oct 20129,03545,08589.383.40$960,823
Sep 20128,44143,32894.672.92$925,558
Aug 20128,78946,39092.662.91$949,298
Jul 20129,41446,13285.133.02$940,769
Jun 20127,80541,88279.822.52$728,498
May 20128,89342,83691.612.49$921,277
Apr 20128,84044,482101.652.00$987,408
Mar 201210,31348,973105.052.22$1,192,203
Feb 201210,00146,490101.102.57$1,130,592
Jan 201211,20450,94298.092.73$1,238,280
Dec 201111,56351,11196.873.24$1,285,694
Nov 201111,28251,67295.723.31$1,251,014
Oct 201111,41655,48784.983.65$1,172,578
Sep 201111,68153,64283.623.99$1,190,572
Aug 201112,40659,25683.404.15$1,280,533
Jul 201112,96657,75294.144.52$1,481,499
Jun 201113,97858,88292.904.64$1,571,762
May 201114,74356,73498.134.40$1,696,634
Apr 201113,19954,143105.964.33$1,633,183
Mar 201114,22054,97596.364.06$1,593,291
Feb 201112,95748,90185.644.18$1,314,043
Jan 201115,99657,64886.504.59$1,648,188
Dec 201016,19656,45985.734.35$1,633,953
Nov 201016,30856,58880.843.80$1,533,109
Oct 201018,01663,06378.103.51$1,628,331
Sep 201019,05464,99372.633.98$1,642,530
Aug 201020,73766,65673.684.42$1,822,479
Jul 201021,91164,98972.554.74$1,897,463
Jun 201018,20680,24670.364.91$1,675,014
May 201018,23783,04771.124.24$1,648,738
Apr 201017,21855,07881.694.12$1,633,608
Mar 201018,16339,79878.394.39$1,598,458
Feb 201016,29756,27573.585.44$1,505,402
Jan 201020,28063,38974.365.96$1,886,079
Dec 200921,75970,72271.445.48$1,942,285
Nov 200922,76569,16374.593.75$1,957,506
Oct 200921,00967,50572.544.11$1,801,455
Sep 200922,67071,95265.543.06$1,706,307
Aug 200923,64067,53567.423.22$1,811,170
Jul 200923,30768,86561.133.46$1,663,340
Jun 200929,06673,31166.163.90$2,208,553
May 200929,23876,34454.743.93$1,900,196
Apr 200933,23180,56146.773.59$1,843,226
Mar 200936,73876,92642.144.06$1,860,382
Feb 200930,16867,18832.814.63$1,301,094
Jan 200928,21762,05735.865.37$1,345,170
Dec 200827,77063,08737.105.98$1,407,347
Nov 200833,16273,34255.496.86$2,343,312
Oct 200833,56255,27875.246.92$2,907,838
Sep 200817,70435,503101.767.88$2,081,219
Aug 200820,18146,787114.228.48$2,701,969
Jul 200819,74949,514131.0811.39$3,152,635
Jun 200818,67845,273131.3313.03$3,043,008
May 200821,19348,845123.1711.57$3,175,688
Apr 200819,74043,462110.3110.45$2,631,909
Mar 200819,59047,780101.909.66$2,457,970
Feb 200819,57442,18092.538.77$2,181,125
Jan 200822,68146,25790.388.21$2,429,481
Dec 200719,50337,82188.337.30$1,998,868
Nov 200717,61638,14291.677.29$1,892,979
Oct 200719,95139,15882.856.92$1,923,991
Sep 200717,21336,22975.846.24$1,531,654
Aug 200716,22133,64969.066.39$1,335,170
Jul 200716,59933,55470.906.39$1,391,210
Jun 200715,08932,71462.007.55$1,182,458
May 200715,44331,26158.747.85$1,152,404
Apr 200712,31227,18359.617.81$946,087
Mar 200714,79228,51756.927.30$1,050,191
Feb 200710,42223,64455.108.22$768,511
Jan 200716,88833,95650.306.73$1,077,883
Dec 200615,97231,64156.656.92$1,123,720
Nov 200613,98726,97454.207.62$963,569
Oct 200617,93932,29654.906.01$1,179,073
Sep 200620,18433,00860.085.04$1,378,923
Aug 200613,81629,73668.717.34$1,167,557
Jul 200614,84131,40569.376.34$1,228,715
Jun 200615,46431,06166.286.38$1,223,244
May 200619,54835,67566.016.42$1,519,575
Apr 200610,74517,31764.397.36$819,332
Mar 200613,21117,63956.707.08$873,999
Feb 200612,61917,85757.597.75$865,140
Jan 200615,34124,55760.598.93$1,148,887
Dec 200512,63116,20554.9413.42$911,344
Nov 20058,49812,16354.6910.59$593,542
Oct 20057,88311,48358.3413.80$618,311
Sep 20054,4227,08261.4512.08$357,275
Aug 20051,7874,76361.519.80$156,581
Jul 20052,6935,15255.697.84$190,384
Jun 20054,4337,47552.337.38$287,152
May 20053,5797,04045.226.65$208,667
Apr 20054,07010,86849.207.36$280,238
Mar 20056,77012,43350.377.15$429,962
Feb 20056,83710,00345.226.31$372,307
Jan 20052,9204,62043.166.32$155,236
Dec 20041,9133,35939.866.75$98,929
Nov 20042,3998,56945.286.33$162,872
Oct 20042,2096,29449.706.52$150,793
Sep 20043,5279,75743.245.28$204,062
Aug 20043,1034,97642.375.55$159,094
Jul 20044761,94338.286.08$30,043
Jun 20043911,43436.106.43$23,340
May 20046061,57537.486.49$32,942
Apr 20049521,20334.475.86$39,863
Mar 20044991,35434.365.53$24,633
Feb 20048251,38032.455.51$34,375
Jan 20049862,58632.036.30$47,872
Dec 20031,3922,14430.266.30$55,633
Nov 200313028.804.60$374

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

May 2026 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                1,740 bbl  × $106.41 =   $185,153
Casinghead gas    11,069 Mcf  × $  3.05 =    $33,714

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Month total                                 $218,868

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 7C/O/15489 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.